ThoughtCrime: 10/05/05
France sentences revisionist to Six Months Imprisonment
On October 5, 2005, by decision of the high court of
Limoges, François Cassasus-Builhé presiding, Georges Theil was convicted
under Frances Loi Gayssot (anti-revisionist law). Mr Theil's crime
was having sent a few individuals copies of the book that he published
in 2002, under the pseudonym Gilbert Dubreuil., entitled: Un cas
d'insoumission / Comment on devient révisionniste (“A Case of
Insubmission / On becoming a revisionist”).
The French court sentenced Theil to the following:
- Six months’ imprisonment without remission;
- Five years’ prohibition of standing for public office;
- Payment of the cost of having extracts of the judgment published
in the dailies Le Monde, Le Figaro, Le Populaire du
Centre and L'Echo de la Haute-Vienne;
- Confiscation of the objects under seal (that is, the computers,
books and documents previously seized at his house by the police);
- Payment to each of the various plaintiffs of the following sums:
€7,000 and €350 plus €1 and €350 plus €1,000 and €350 plus €1,000
and €350 plus €1 and another €350;
- Payment of €90 in procedural fees.
Theil has begun remitting large sums to the plaintiffs.
"Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime IS death."
- George Orwell
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